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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
BLACKS LATEST MANIFESTO.
His Desperate but Futile Effort to Improy
CIeveIand's Pension Record.

His Desperate but Futile Effort to Improve
CIeveIand's Pension Record.
Washing ton Special
Commissioner Blacks young who peddles
campaign manifestoes from the Pension Offi:e
was successful on Monday in disposing Of the
third proclamation designed to show that Grover
Cleveland is the friend of the Union soldier
The conclusion of this manifesto is almost as
soul-inspiring as Bonaparte's address TO his SOL
diers in the presence of the Pyramids. 1t reads
thus:
Soldiers of the Republic! This is President
Cleveland's pension record. Wherein is il in
different the welfare of the deserving soldier2,
To be sure the last sentence sounds little
more like Marc Anthony thar like Napoleon.
but the whole thing, taken together. is entirely
appropriate. for it is the conclusion of lying
bulletin. It begins usual by assuming that
the President alone is to receive credit for all
acts passed by Congress In the last two years
for the benefit of pensioners He is also to
ceive credit for the issuance of more pension
certificates than during the preceding two years.
The true inwardness of this claim has been
already exposed in the Tribune The last illus
tration of the looseness with which the Pension
by the newspapers. which contained an
item showing that Oscar j. Harvey had
been able to railroad forged claim
through the Pension Office and waiting to
receive the proceeds some 81 700, when we was
arrested at Wilkesbarre. In the frantic attempt
to show that Mr.. Cleveland Is the best friend the
Union veterans have had. Physical
Wreck" Black returns to the question OF the
vetoes, and gives analysis of them Fortu-
nately the soldiers understand all about that
Mr.. Cleveland in two years has vetoed l23 PEN
sion bills. In sixteen years of Republican ad-
ministration six pension bills were vetoed all
by General Grant-two of them because PEN
sions had been already granted to the claimants.
one because the claimant was shown to be q de-
serter, and three were returned for a correction
of the name. There were six out of 80 Mr..
Cleveland vetoed I23 out of $50. It would be
more modest for him ana Mr.. Black not to make
any comparisons with President Grant on this
subject.
1t is also alleged in this manifesto that all the
pension agents, except two, under Republic
an administration were civilians and active pol
itcians This is wholly false. and nobody
knows it better than General Black. He also
that all the pension agents now except Mr.
Mullgan. distinguished Union soldiers.
Gilbert H. Barger, pension agent at Columbus,
is a man who was dismissed from the service for
leaving his command in the face of the enemy.
AS for George W. Click, of Kansas, the place
where he buried his rebel dead has never been
discovered. but his name is starred In the de-
Dartment register. According TO this latest
manifesto, too, President Cleveland has appoint
ed caused to be appointed more ex-Union
soldiers .'or their kindred" to Office than
of his predecessors Among the
kindred" are to be counted, it is presumed, the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
Coronation Chair Explanations.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Pail Mall GaZette-
Nir Plunkett in replying to Sir Thomas Es-
monde in the House of Commons last night t,
said s'lt is true that certain missing portions
CT the coronation chair 10 the abbey were, for
the purpose of the recent ceremony, of necessity
replaced by new work, but this very care
fully arranged, that they could be again re.
moved without any damage to the chair. and
they have been removed 1t is true also that
a considerable portion of the chair slightly
darkened That. too, done be
easily capable of being undone and the ch air is
now, both to substance and color. exactly rs
it was before it was given into my charge /
am SO fortunate to be able to state that the
Dean of Westminster and the president of the
Society of Antiquaries are we'll satisfied with
the careful manner in which the monuments
and the structure of the abbey have been treated
by the Office of Works.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
A Sensational Scandal in Which an Off
Ger of the Medical Corps Figures.
Commissioner Blacks Futile Effort to Improve
President Clevelands Pension Record
Other Items of Washington News.


Republicans Can Win if They Will Nominate
the Right Man.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 30 Ex-Postmaster-ge gen.
eral Frank Hatton has been here several days
and of course has been asked his views the
presidential outlook for 1888. Mr.. Hatton is
Of those politicians who have the courage to
express their views when asked to do so. He
does not mince matters, but speaks fright out in
meeting" To your correspondent he said: Il
think that the Republicans win next year,
but to DO it they must nominate a candidate who
will draw every Republican vote. 1t will not
do to nominate candidate for the presidency
simply because one faction is bowling for him.
just now we hear that Blaine has the calf on
the party. But if the call is analysed it will be
found that the men who shouting for the
nomination of Mr.. Blaine the men who have
climbed downward instead of upward in politics.
Blaine is not popular with the business of
the party. It was not only the mugwumps who
deserted the Republican standard.in 1884 Those
fellows immovably in the Democratic ranks.
There are, however, in New York. Boston. and
other cities numbers of men who Republic
and always will be- but they will never vote
for Blaine. If Sherman is nominated they will
return to the ranks. There are other men who
might be nominated who would be equally ac-
ceptable."
''Who IS the most popular Republican in the
West?"
THAT is difficult question I
think that Sherman is gaining in strength every
day In Illinois Lincoln and Sheridan are ex-
ceedingly popular and either of them swoud
take the West by storm"
''You do not seem to be particularly anxious
tharsthe nomination should go Baine2"
mo. | believe that Blaine could have been
elected in 1884 if the campaign had been properly
managed. But the trouble was that the men
who conducted the campaign thought that they
could win without the aid of the best posted
workers in the party. l think that Blaine's OPP
portunity has passed, and for that reason want
to see some other nominated"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
Training Ground for the Militia.


WASHINGTON. July %. "A movement is on
foot to induce Congress at the coming session TO
provide for the purchase of large tract of land
on the Virginia shore of the Potomac for grand
military reservation different scale from
any which has been contemplated in the past
Land in Virginia, within very few miles from
Washington, can be purchased at asronishinaly
low figures at the present time. There
thousands of acres which offered for sale at
prices ranging from So to $40 acre. II is be-
lieved that the day will come when there will be
&. national miiatia within the borders Of the
United States. Whom that day arrives it will be
necessary to have q mastering ground for the
citizen soldiery, and it is with this idea in view
that the present movement is inaugurated. The
government already owns several hundred acres
across the Potomac This tract is embraced in
the Arlington estate and the cavalry station
known Fort Meyer. Five hundred acres
could undoubtedly be secured this reser-
walton at very low figures just now. and the
acquisition would furnish grand place for
military maEeuvers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle con-
corning the scandal in which Herbert Beecher
is involved and to which reference made in
the Journal few days since, seems to have
done injustice to Mr.. Wintrode a former at
tache of the collectors Office at Port Townsend,
w. T. Blake, the prosecuting witness against
Beecher, it will be remembered left the Pacific
coast to lay his charges before the President,
and died Chicago while on his way. Mr..
Wintrode started East shortly afterwards and
having been in Chicago the Chronicle draws the
inference that he saw Blake and is in collision
with Beecher and is in possession of facts
which he is unwilling to disclose Hon. John
r. Coffroth, of Lafayette. writes to the Journal
to say that such conclusions are erroneous. Mr..
Cofroth states that while a visit to the Pa
eifc coast in the spring ne became i'll and that
Mr.. Wintrode kindly anticipated the trip he
pected to take later and accompanied him
the journey home. They reached Chicago on
May 4, and from there Mr.. Wntrode took a
train to Huntington, Ind, where his wife and
child were visiting and where his parents and
brothers reside. During his entire stay in Chi
cago he as not absent from Mr.. Coffroth's side
and consequently could not have seen Blake.
Mr.. Wintrode is Republican and was not ap-
pointed assistant collector by Mr.. Beecher, but
by his predecessor, Mr. Bash.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

ABOUT two hundred sons and daughters Of
Ohio, members of the Ohio society in New York,
enjoyed themselves at banquet Wednesday
evening. The president of the banquet and
POSTMASTER of the occasion was Mr.. Algernon
S. Sullivan, well-known lawyer of the metrop-
oils. Mr.. Sullivan is a son of the late Hon.
jeremiah Sullivan, formerly judge of the Su-
preme Court of Indiana. and for a long time
resident at Madison, in this State, where his
family was reared. If we do not mistake Hon.
Algernon S. Sullivan born there. Perhaps
he became son of Ohio in crossing that State
on his way to New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

WHEN the wife of the late Wilbur F. Storey.
of Chicago was granted a divorce, she also
granted alimony Of So. 600 year, which was paid
during his life and by the receiver of his estate
for some time after his death. Now, however,
the court has ordered the payment to be stopped.
In making the order the court said there was nc
case record where the payment of alimony
had been held binding on an heir after the death
of the party against whom the alimony was as
sessed, while the contrary had been held by the
Supreme Court of Iowa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

The Maryland civil-service reformers are
trying to get the Higgins pernicious activity
case before the President, but the Ohio
brethren are preserving an Intense silence re-
garding the recent infraction of the Presi-
federal Office holders at political conventions.
Perhaps, however, the Ohio mugwumps, if
any ever existed, gave up the struggle when
Mr. Cleveland pardoned the Cincinnati cleo
ton crooks out of the penitentiary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
Suggestion for the Tally-Sheet Crooks.

New York Tribune.
The Democratic inspectors trial for cleo
ton frauds in Indiana make poor exhibition of
themselves on the witness stand. After seeking
for months to escape prosecution on technicali-
ties they now assert their entire innocence of
the charges; but admit that the tally sheets
were changed in their hands Of course, they
do nor know how it was done. An Intelligent
iury would find no difficulty In couvicting them
on their own evidence, If called on to defend
themselves for committing perjury, as well as
for election frauds, they may learn 3 double
lass
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

A VIOLENT attack made by the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette on the female hustle
that is to say, on the hustle worn by the fe-
male Of the human species-suggests that
newspaper may be sentent creation to the
extent of objecting to illegitimate use of
itself in warm weather. If this be true, then
this protest against the hustle may be regard
ed as one of the cases where the press speaks
for itself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

THE echoes of the Ohio Republican con-
7ention will reverberate beyond the State,
and the impulse of it's earnestness and en-
thusiasm will be sensibly felt in Indiana In
due time Indiana Republicans will establish
touch of the elbow communication with their
Buckeye brethren and march to the same
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

HON CYRUS +. MCNUTT, of counsel for de-
PENDANTS in the conspiracy trial, writes love
stories of tender and touching character for
a newspaper syndicate. There was not much
IN the case of the tally-sheet rogues to give
him practic in his favorite art, but, never
theless, he managed, yesterday, TO do u good
deal Of forid romancing in their behalf.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

Two natural gas companies, exclusive of
the State convention, reached Toledo with
their pipes on Wednesday. Toledo differs
from indianapolis in some respects.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

The cable special in a Chicago paper to the
effect that on Monday last Mr.. Blaine sud-
denly determined to return to the United
States Immediately, has not been confirmed,
and was probably without foundation. He
may have felt that he would like to come
back to look after Ohio but as late as Mon
day that would have been impossible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

THE mixing of lessons in cooking with
religious instructions at Acton is new de-
parture in camp-meeting programmes. There
is a fitness in it, however. A cook always
needs religion, and the religious need good
cookery this weather in order to sustain their
regulations for righteousness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
RAINLESS.

Week after week in hooking guise
A dusky cloud bank low has lain,
But never any drop of rain
Falls from yon parching skies.
The grass is slippery to the feet
And shriveled buds untimely fall
Only the tiger lilies tall
Clean tawny through the heat.
The vampire sun hangs overhead
A blazing disk of deadly Ill
That drains all natures lifeblood, till
Tie summer heart lies dead.
-EyaIeen Stein.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

If Governor Gray decides to go to Philadel-
phia himself, in September, to participate in
the constitutional celebration, he must not
fail to take his staff along. Other Governors
and their staffs are going. and it would be
sheer cruelty to deprive the Indiana officials
Of SO good a chance to disport themselves in
what President Cleveland dsrespectfully
called their toggery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

THE esteemed Pope is just getting acquaint-
ed With the enterprising newspaper man, and
since the premature publication of the Vat
lean policy doesn't to like him very
WELL His Holiness may as we'll become
reconciled. The newspaper man IS fixed
fact, and no decree of accommodation will
stay him from getting what he wants.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

The home of that notorious Democrst
Green Smith, is in Jennings county, but
one has connected him with the mysterious
raising of the church beam which has so ex-
cited the people down there Something very
different from church beams is apt TO be raised
in places frequented by Mr. Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

TOLEDO isn't as large town Indianap-
Oils but it has managed to have natural gas
piped into it from wells forty miles away, and
hasn't made much fuss about the work, either
There may not be enough gas in the wells
tapped to supply the town, but they will use
what they have as far as it goes, and dig for
more as fast as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
Enough to Convict.

Pittsburg Chronicle.
The evidence is all in in the Indiana tally sheet
forgeries, and there is enough of it to consgn
the Dem ocratic defendants for long terms TO the
penitentiary. The revelations made on the wit
ness stand of such character as TO dis
gust all selfrespectIng Democrats with their
party leaders and their tools. and will cause a
good many to support the Republican ticket
hereafter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

THE keeping of witnesses out of their legal
fees by those in authority, and the purchase
of their claims at large discountby attaches
of the Commissioners Court, indicates the ex
istence of another gang of @"conspirators."
They should be investigated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

THE Endorsement of Senator Sherman by
the Ohio convention was strong and hearty.
Whatever opposition there was spent itself in
advance, and did not materialize in the con-
vention. Tho resolution was adopted with
tumultuous cheering.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
An Inconsistens World.

Indiana Christian Advocate.
An esteemed correspondent writes some Dithy
and truthful criticisms on the baseball craze
and its demoralizing influence. We see no rem
edy but to let IL its course, the skatiog-
craze did. Meanwhile. 1t seems incongruous TO
see preachers and people at the game. or so IN
terested in it as.to read every word that appears
in the papers about it. who go into spasms over
attending the theater playing cards or dane
ing. This world is wonderfully given to neon
sistencY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

tain political convention in which he had
a personal interest, that Ohio Democrats
always cut man down if he got to be more
than a foot tall. Judging by proceedings at
Toledo yesterday the same charge cannot be
made against Ohio Republicans. They APP
preciate their tallest man, and propose to lift
him up higher. TnGEsh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

CHARLES REED once famous Chicago law
yer, who gained notoriety by defending Guiteau,
the murderer of President Garfield, was caught
a few days ago in the act of trying to take money
from the private drawer of a hotel in Jersey
City. He has had no employment for some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

THE denomination of Governor Foraker by
reclamation, and the hearty Endorsement of
Senator Sherman puts the Republican party
of Ohio in good shape.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

SENATOR SHERMANs manner Of thanking
the Ohio convention for its Endorsement of
him was manly and feeling. He said he
knew it was a matter of sentiment and not
conclusive Of anything. still he wanted it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

The events of yesterday indicate that when
Senator sherman concludes that he wants a
Thing he knows how TO get it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

D. R. ANTHONY, well-known editor of Leav-
enworth, Kan, and brother of Susan B. was
severely cowhded on the street few days ago
by a citizen whom he had been lampooning
Editors should be little careful how they in
dulge in personal abuse in hot weather
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

his lax performance of duty. Sheriffs and
jailers should learn that prisoners are to be
dealt with prisoners. The way to keep
them is to keep them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
a Ch.rminc Fashion.

New York Commercial Advertiser
II is believed that the fashion OF going bonnet
less to the theatre will be firmly established by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

TOLEDO has piped in natural gas this year.
indianapolis will have it some other year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

Encouraging the Man with the Plain Pole
New York Mail and Express
The man who has an ;nlaid and silver-tipped
fshing-rod rarely catches enough TO make a good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK
EX-Postmaster-General Hatton Talks
About Next Years National Contest.

A Republican Victory Can Be Made Ger
tainty by Nominating the Right Man-Mr.
Blaine Beaten in 1884 by Bad Management.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

mother in-law and brother-in-law of General
Black, both of them having been appointed to
places in the Interior Department. since he be-
came Commissioner of Pensions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

EX-SENATOR THURMAN oncc remarked
with some emphasis, after the close of GER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard
des Capucines-
NEW YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO-Palrner House
CINCINNATI-J P Havley & Co., 154 Vine street.
LOUISvILLE-C It. bearing, northwest
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

Brooklyn Citizen (pem.9
forlorn hopo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29

Telephone Calls.
Business OhTcs.----23S Editorial Rooms -242
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-02
StraVed,

A WHITE HORSE, IL years old, branded N on
left thigh, and Il bald faced BUCKSKIN HORSE,
branded ON left shoulder, strayed to the Ham
burg ranch, near Minidoka, on the Oregon Short
Line Railway, several months ago.
Owners will please call at once, prove property.
WI. WYATT.
Minidoks, l. T., November g. 1887. NOT
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-02
Notice.
Lost---S5 Reward.

BUGGY ROBE, CUSHION, and WHIP, be.
tween the old concentrator and DR.. N. j. Browns
residence.
The finder will please leave at the Merchants
Hotel and receive reward NIL
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-02
Taken Up.

A BAY MULE, with saddl G. marks, but visible
brand, lame in right fore leg, came to my corral,
near the Camas Mill, on the 3Oth of December; is
spry. and young looking and weighs about 76O
pounds
The owner is requested to call at my place, psy
charges, and take the mule away.
JAMES RICHARDSON,
At Ranch near Camas Mil.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-02
Matrimonial Agency.

JANSEN co, 8, Station Road, Plaisted, Lon.
don, England. Established to supply Settlers In
the States with the addresses of respectable young
women who are willing to communicate with bona
fde Tradcsmen, Farmers, and others desirou of
meeting with useful wives. They will be sup
piled from the Agricultural Districts OF England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales rs well as the Con-
tinent of Europe. Applicants should state their
particular requirements and preferences, enclos-
ing Postal Order for so cents to meet preliminary
expenses. su3dGw
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-02
Lost,

CELLULoID WHIP HANDLE, with q small
mules foot the end.
A suitable reward will be paid for the delivery
of the handle at PETER MEVES'S STABLE or
the TIMES OFFICE. 40
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-02
StraYed.
The Baxter Hotel, Ketchum

PAUL P. BAXTER, proprietor, is the oldest
and best kept hotel on Wood River. The dining
room is the largest in the Territory and the tables
are supplied with every thing the market affords.
The rooms are large, airy and well furnished.
Charges very moderate. This is a HOTEL, and
when in Ketchum don't forget the fact or the loca-
tion-Main street. below First National Bank. q